DESCRIPTION:
This is a video for the song "Vespertine" from my third demo CD "What Tomorrow Brings".

A group that inspires me a lot musically is Secret Garden. They have a variety of songs that are based on forms of classical music. This let me to investigate some of those forms of classical music myself. The first form that I investigated was the sarabande, which is a dance in triple metre with alternating emphasis on the first and second note of a bar. The sarabande originates from Central America in the 16th century. The dance was especially popular in the 16th and 17th century. When it first moved across the Atlantic to Spain it was controversial as the slow dance was deemed a bit erotic at that time. Johann Sebastian Bach later gave the sarabande a privileged place in music, even outside the context of dance suites. As I love the flow of the sarabande, I decided to use it as the base for this song. Though the original sarabande starts with an emphasis on the second note of the first bar and then the first note of the second bar (then repeating this pattern), I found that switching the order gave this song a much more interesting flow.

LINKS
Listen to other songs from my three demo CDs "Unexpected", "Fighting with Shadows" and "What Tomorrow Brings" on: www.soundcloud.com/msetten

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ATTRIBUTIONS
Piano samples courtesy of Matt Stedeford's Ebony Concert Grand Piano Library, www.imperfectsamples.com
The violin comes from Kirk Hunter's Spotlight Strings library, http://www.kirkhunterstudios.com
The other instruments come from Native Instruments Kontakt 5, http://www.native-instruments.com

All video fragments used are either free to use videos or have a Creative Commons License allowing them to be reused, adapted and/or altered. The video fragments used come from (in order of appearance):

http://www.videezy.com/nature/1623-moon-night-scene-black-and-white
by NothingTypical

http://vimeo.com/21245909
by Michael Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ts2fkM9Z8
by FreeVideosHD

http://vimeo.com/6525184
by Stan Parker

http://vimeo.com/59163981
by Jeffrey Beach

http://www.videvo.net/video/milky-way-with-tree/1318
by Videvo

http://vimeo.com/45802422
by Stan Parker

http://www.orangehd.com/archives/2012/11_november/Moon_2_timelapse.html
by orangeHD

http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2011/12/1-clip-has-milky-way.html
by Beachfront B-Roll

The final video fragment has been created by Mark van Setten.

COPYRIGHT
(c) 2014 Mark van Setten, The Netherlands.
Music has been composed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark van Setten. Video has been designed and created by Mark van Setten.